Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-14
CHEAP ) LITERATURE
THE GREAT CHANGES wH,cv
TAKEN PLACE IN TUE Al1

What = Simple Little Maj,
Toward Making Cheap 1,t,,.a ''a
~sible-wretched stur ~, '''s
Out Of the Market. Dr.
"Tnese cheap books" continued
shave made great changes in IL, ny IL
they are destined to make mors as
themselves have changed, as W, yet
noticed, since they first mads na!
ance. Most Of them started ~. 'uelr sp
locations, and for some time thsr IS dtns
that price. But the price was ~ were sd
when the matter Of the book w. 'O@ q
from England, and cost the pub,;ss,h nos
the expense of the mechanical rasa nois
great for such a price. Now. 40 ~k w.
most Of the cheap editions ara so, you hA
twenty or twenty-five cents. nv. '0t ss
fair margin Of profit to the aasNI
even when he pays the autbo,p PULLS
work; 50 there is every prohot,.tl To-
the cheap editions will last. Perjury
not know how much a simple littlan lay
has done toward making cheap liter.. W
sible-I mean the machine that hiasa 'h
phlets with a tiny bit of wire. m uas
and cheaper than they can be ses.a y
that some Of the publishers, MY
those who do not publish any scS'a
tions,' complain that these cheap h@sP
to be found even in the houses ~ "a
people, who would not hesitate to n. sa5
for q single chair Why should tber n!t'
It is q home]y old saying, but a vervt
that what is sauce for the goose is sS'
the gander. The publishers will MT
America for what they can get for ~
in England; why, then, should reader, "
for what they can buy for twenty CAM,
do not believe, however, that the cbe,nl'
interfere with the sale Of well bound II
somely printed books that will last n
rather help the sale Of any book that i, , !
preserving"
THE ms AND OUTS
~ almost suspect" I told him, 4h,, .
must have been in the publishing brs'!
yourself at some time or other"
mo, I have not" he replied; @but Ih,,l
friend who is a publisher, and 50 u+'
know more Of the ms and outs of the bpS,1
than I otherwise should. I think The H.
editions help along good books in this u
they give readers a chance to buy and s,..
inc them in the cheap form, and then 4
prove to be worth preserving the reader !
q bound copy for his library, when D,
likely he would not have bought it if be-
not read 1t. This, Of course, is looking At,
matter from the publishers standpoint
the public I think the cheap editions a,
great boon. They give everybody an ou
tunity to keep informed of the l~iteraar
the day at small cost. Even the BOYS
reading them. Not long ago, if I called
Office boy I would see him stuffing some
cradle dime novel, Indian story or one Of
aashy boys papers into his pocket now Il
quently see them reading books Of a n
class, because they are equally Oh
and equally interesting, even, to a boy '
any brains. If cheap works by good autE
can drive out tho wretched stuff that
been sold to boys and girls in
country, that alone is q sufficient excus
their existence. I al tell you Of an;
good work they are doing"
"What is thatW I asked.
"They are disgusting people with the m
ating Sir Charles and Lady Glare Nj
Hall type of novel, in which impossible
pie who use ridicuously stilted languaa
put in ridiculously impossible situations
marry and live happily aver
ward. Have you not noticed that yer
comparatively few-of such book
now? It is because the chea
ions have given people such a dose of
The ordinary reader TAI stand SO mu
hat thing and no more. And the publ
ire not slow in finding out what there
nand for and what there is not. Perht
'ew love sick girls still read such novels
anybody else. It was only nece
or people to have a good dose of them
have had it."-Wm. Drysdalein
York Times.